StarOffice™ 7 Office Suite vs. OpenOffice.org Comparison Overview With the StarOffice™ 7 office suite, Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides a full-featured, multi-platform office productivity suite compatible with Microsoft Office. Accompanied by a full range of global support options, StarOffice software meets the requirements of office productivity users at enterprises, governments, small- medium businesses and educational institutions. In 2000 Sun released the source code of StarOffice software publicly through OpenOffice.org, thus initiating the world's largest open source project. The OpenOffice.org community includes over 14,000 developers and 100,000 registered members, working on more than 45 projects and responsible for the ongoing development of OpenOffice.org. More than 40 million copies of OpenOffice.org and StarOffice software have been distributed to date. StarOffice software is based on the OpenOffice.org suite and includes value-added enterprise capabilities and features. Visit the OpenOffice.org Project at www.openoffice.org. The StarOffice and OpenOffice.org Relationship The StarOffice and OpenOffice.org product family provide the benefits of an open software development approach while offering full-featured products that meet enterprise requirements. A detailed comparison of both products is provided below. Description StarOffice 7 Office Suite OpenOffice.org 1.1 Product Complete enterprise-level Customizable, open source product product with value-added designed to enable users to modify features, support and services the product. Supported by Sun backed by Sun Microsystems. Microsystems. Product Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, X X Database Access Software Development Kit (SDK) X X Languages 10 languages 26+ languages (in various stages of completion) - see http://l10n.openoffice.org/ Platforms Windows, Linux, Solaris[tm] Windows, Linux, Linux PowerPC, Operating System Solaris Operating System, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, IRIX, Linux/390/HP- Unix Description StarOffice 7 Office Suite OpenOffice.org 1.1 Add-ons • Integrated Adabas D database Community developed and third • Licensed, commercial quality party products spellchecker and thesaurus • Nearly 2000 clipart images • About 300 completely localized sample documents and templates • Document filters (e.g. WordPerfect) • Twelve western fonts in several styles incl. Microsoft Office compatible core fonts • Seven Asian fonts • Fresh look and feel (new icons) Central Configuration Tools StarOffice Configuration None Manager Services and Support Documentation Broad set of documentation, Community developed mostly localized - see http://docs.sun.com for details Training Instructor-led and Web-based Community organized; third-party training classes - see support http://www.support- central.de/office Support Services End user, enterprise and • OpenOffice.org enterprise education support services from support by Sun Sun - see http://www.support- • Community newsgroups and central.de/office mailing lists (self help support); third-party support Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, StarOffice, Sun Ray and Java are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Mozilla is a trademark or registered trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation in the United States and other countries..